NEWS IN BRIEF.

Waikato Independent, Volume III, Issue 214, 7 April 1906, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

George Hill, a farm labourer, was found dead near Hyde.

A severe drought exists in New Guinea, and food is scarce.

The Wellington tramways made a clear profit of £6700 for the year. The Eight Ecv. Lord Alwyne Compton, formerly Bishop of Ely, has died at the age of 81.

A sensation was occasioned in the Reichstag by the sudden collapse of Prince von Buelow.

George Mdndoe, mailman, died from injuries received while conveying the mails from Milton to Glenledi. The sudden death occurred at Timaru of Mr Hendry, the chief engineer of the dredge Timaru. Christopher Shears, 55 years, fell overboard from a ketch between Dusky Bay and Chalky Inlet and was drowned. There passed away in the Grey River Hospital recently George Cough, a well-known diver, who had attained the great ago of 95 years. The Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s annual competitive essay on the Agricultural Show was won by Miss Mona Mackay.

Charles Stokes, a resident of Sydney, who was on his way to Christchurch, died suddenly in the Victoria Hotel at Auckland.

James Fraser, 50 years of age, fell off a train at Seacliff and sustained serious injuries. He is not expected to recover. Blight is seriously affecting the crops in the Tuapeka district. It is expected that good sound potatoes will fetch good prices before many months have elapsed.

A reduction of about a penny a pound in the price of meat has been agreed upon by the Auckland butchers, and it takes effect from the first of the present month.

A considerable area of land in the Auckland land district will be thrown open for selection during the present month, the total area being upward of 45,0.00 acres.

Lord De Ramsay has given notice to terminate the tendncies of one thousand allotment-holders on his Huntingdon estate, alleging that the existing provision has not given satisfaction, and has led to grave mis-statements and insinuations as to over-renting.

Mrs Dowie proceeds to more specific charges against the “ profit.” She declares that for years pasc Dowie has insisted on hearing confessions, talked to attractive women about polygamy, and tried to set her aside. The Zion City oversees, it is stated, possess records of many scandals.